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Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley

It's the time of the week where we take a look at how the NFC East stacked up against the rest of the league in the all-important ESPN.com power rankings. Our four voters have spoken -- and they actually made some sense with this week's results.

In case you missed them, here are the actual power rankings -- as decided by the Nashville-based Paul Kuharsky, Kansas City resident Jeff Chadiha and our men from the Seattle area, Mike Sando and John "The Professor" Clayton. If you'd like to second-guess these brave men, here's a chart that shows how they voted.

2. New York Giants -- Kuharsky and Chadiha continue to put the Giants where they belong -- at the top. Sando and Clayton both have the Giants ranked No. 3, behind the Colts and Vikings. I'll give you the Colts even though I think the Giants would win in a head-to-head matchup. But are the Vikings a better team than the Giants at this point in the season?

7. Philadelphia Eagles -- The Eagles may have moved up even more if not for Kuharsky leaving them at No. 10. The Eagles moved up three spots, which was one of the bigger surges of the week. As one might imagine, the Bengals made the biggest move, rising all the way to No. 6. But with the Eagles beating a dreadful team such as the Bucs, I'm thinking fans should be fairly pleased with that No. 7 ranking. Clayton, Sando and Chadiha all have the Eagles at No. 7, so that's a pretty good consensus.

17. Dallas Cowboys -- The Cowboys didn't rise or fall following their 26-20 overtime win over the Chiefs. The voters did the wise thing and left them exactly where they were. I think that's a pretty good decision. I thought they had the Cowboys a little low after the narrow loss to the Broncos, but No. 17 seems about right at this point. The 49ers and Packers are still ranked ahead of them. Not sure about that, but it's not like you can make a passionate argument on the Cowboys' behalf. Sando was toughest on them, ranking them 20th. But he's been doing that all season. He might be wrong, but at least he's consistent about it.

24. Washington Redskins -- Don't let that 2-3 record fool you, Skins fans. They've played one of the weakest schedules available -- and they've manged two wins. This is a really, really bad football team right now with major injury issues and turmoil in the locker room. I have no problems with Sando putting them at No. 28. After all, he's a guy that knows Jim Zorn pretty well. If anyone on this panel was going to give Zorn the benefit of the doubt, it would be Sando -- but he has them 28th. The benevolent Chadiha has the Redskins at No. 21. The seven spots between Sando and Chadiha was the widest gap in the voting process.

The Beast once again finished as the highest division with an average ranking of 12.8. That's up from last week's 13.1 finish. Sando continues to rank the NFC East behind the NFC North, but he's the only one. Chadiha loves the Beast, turning in an average ranking of 11.5. The NFC West checked in with a sad little 21.3 average ranking.

My compliments to Sando for doing such an amazing job on compiling all this stuff. It's a pretty cool feature.